Global electronic dance music trio Major Lazer Announced New Upcoming Album ‘Music Is The Weapon‘ to release on October 23rd
Major Lazer New Upcoming Album ‘Music Is The Weapon‘ will feature recently released tracks including “Oh My Gawd” with Mr Eazi featuring Nicki Minaj and K4mo, “Lay Your Head On Me” featuring Marcus Mumford—which recently reached #1 on AAA and Dance radio charts in the US and went top 10 at Alternative radio – Latin Grammy-nominated “Rave de Favela” with Anitta, MC Lan and BEAM, “Que Calor” featuring J Balvin and El Alfa—which was performed by Balvin at the 2020 Super Bowl alongside Jennifer Lopez and topped charts worldwide – “Trigger” with Khalid, and “Can’t Take It From Me” featuring Skip Marley.
Major Lazer will also launch a new comic book drawn by longtime collaborator Ferry Gouw, creator of the original Major Lazer character, and written by acclaimed scribe Alex De Campi—early next year. Preorder the comic here and read a preview here.
Major Lazer recently partnered with YouTube to debut a new docu-special, Chasing the Sound, that follows the group to Ghana and Nigeria—watch it here. In addition, the 2016 documentary film “Give Me Future” chronicling Major Lazer’s historic, 400,000 person concert in downtown Havana, Cuba is available on YouTube for the first time ever—watch it here.
The Global Dance Trio Diplo, Walshy Fire and Ape Drums Named for the group’s fictional figurehead, a one-armed Jamaican Zombie War commando, Major Lazer’s mission is to free the universe with music. The band has released three acclaimed albums, 2009’s Guns Don’t Kill People…
The trio will play a series of socially distant drive-in Major Lazer Sound System shows in the US next month—see below for all dates. Tickets for the drive-in tour go on sale October 2nd.
Major Lazer Upcoming October U.s. Drive-in Tour Dates:
October 23 Riverside, CA, Rubidoux Drive-In Theater
October 24 Burlingame, CA, HotBox Pop-Up
October 26 Houston, TX, White Oak
October 27 Forth Worth, TX, Coyote Drive-In
October 29 Columbus, OH , Westland Drive-In
October 30 Atlanta, GA, ATL Motor Speedway
October 31 Charlotte, NC, Charlotte Speedway